Sentence examples for characteristic tenor from inspiring English sources

More subtly, however, the compromise McElroy brokers between inside and out helps explain the characteristic tenor of his narrators' ­voices.

That one report called the process hastening his departure an 'unexpected but peaceful transition' suggests that what more impartial observers call a coup nonetheless had special characteristics softening its military tenor.

Gigli has none of the characteristic temperament of the Italian tenor and is calm in life and in his art.

The rest of the group includes the saxophonist James Carter, who has lately been jumping into organ-and-tenor music with characteristic zeal; the guitarist Rodney Jones; and the drummer Carl Allen.

Most characteristic are the settings for solo tenor, conceived for Britten's partner Peter Pears, and delivered here with clarity by Andrew Kennedy.

Among his successors, José Carreras is the only tenor to evince similar characteristics in abundance.

Network analysis reveals social and professional structures and characteristics but does not disclose the tenor of the communication or interaction.

In this year's portrait, Nixon's forty-third, the sisters are sixty-eight, sixty-six, fifty-eight, and sixty-four, yethehe tenor and the particular formal characteristics of the photographs have barely changed in four decades.

Heavily influenced by Charlie Christian, Grimes played the electric guitar -- both the four-string (tenor) and six-string models -- in Christian's characteristic swing-to-bop style.

In a personal film, acclaimed tenor Rolando Villazon explores the technical, physical and artistic demands of his craft, identifying the characteristics that have distinguished the good from the great through the centuries.

Tall tenor saxist Javon Jackson didn't tremble in the big loafers of John Coltrane; he swaggered through characteristic wide leaps and struck the right level of sensitivity with a bluesier tone than his predecessor.